During his birthday show last year, Barrence Whitfield uncorked a manic rocker called “Girl From Outer Space.” A local hit in the ’80s, it’s a tough one to sing in the best of times, calling for three ...

After a decade-long hiatus, the Boston outfit reunited in 2011; this year, it released Dig Thy Savage Soul. Here, the blues band plays a soulful,... Barrence Whitfield & The Savages On World Cafe ...

Barrence Whitfield’s turbocharged voice is still hot enough to sizzle bacon fat. Whitfield, 58, burns through R&B and jump blues like he first did almost 30 years ago with his bandmates, The Savages.

Long Gone (The Customs) (with Peter Greenberg on guitar & vocals) I Smell A Rat (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) (with Barrence Whitfield on vocals, Steve Lagrega on saxophone, & PG) One Bad Stud (Jerry ...

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Barrence Whitfield, the boisterous frontman of the terrific garage rock act Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, says his parents encouraged him to sing from an early age. “I heard a lot of music in ...

Liner notes: Powered by honking sax and brutal beats on this raunchy raveup, Barrence Whitfield commands listeners to stop “flapping your jaw” and start dancing. Behind the music: Born Barry White—no ...

This kind of thing just doesn’t happen. The headlining band — in this case the internationally renowned, triple-Grammy winning Los Lobos — took the stage for what would become a half-hour encore at ...

NEW HAVEN — Barrence Whitfield is a soul screamer who can conjure up spirits and raise the dead with the best of them, and he’s coming back to Cafe Nine on March 16 — so LOOK OUT! If you’re the kind ...

If you’re planning on attending the Barrence Whitfield and the Savages show next Wednesday at Bar None, you may want to bring along your gym bag. Your rock-and-roll heart and soul will be in for a ...

Barrence Whitfield lets loose some ungodly screams in the song “I’m a Full Grown Man,” a track on the new album by his band the Savages, but it was in church where he learned how to summon that howl.